Maybe not quite the same as Dell Butcher Hall, but Wiess College has changed buildings and Hanszen has had a series of commons (commonses?). I’m sure other college’s have had more than one commons or Master’s house.

Each college has its own historian and college coordinators have accumulated lots of memorabilia and photographs and stories from over the years. I know that at Hanszen we even had a hard drive of pictures taken over the years. You should definitely look into each of the colleges to build the archive – there’s a lot just sitting there.

Wiess and Hanszen actually swapped Master’s houses at one point, so there was a period of years when Hanszen House was called Wiess House and vice versa. That was before Wilson House (the new Wiess Masters house) was built. Now the Hanszen Masters are back in their old house, and the old Wiess House is the Housing & Dining headquarters. Clear?

In response to Hanszenite, I’m the one who works with the college coordinators, historians, presidents, and masters to acquire more materials from the colleges. In almost two years, we have basically doubled the size of our collection. This does not include all of the archived emails from the listservs and my new project of getting the colleges to start using Google Docs to store their government documents.